The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-09


and without paying them anything for it. The
case was tried at the Decent Der term of the
court, and q Judgment was returned for the
plaintiffs for $50. A hearing asked
and granted.
Manufacturing and Industrial Notes
The indianapolis water works, for three
months past. have been pumping average of
1000, 600 gallons of water per day.
Three of the Indianapolis elevators have been
converted into storehouses and the other two are
occasionally loading few for shipment
East.
Smoking meats has become quite important
industry in Indianapolis. Last month the two
leading packing houses smoked ], 300, 600 pounds
OF short ribs and hams
Hetherington & Bernsr to-day shipped an iron
turn-table to Sandusky, o., to take the place of
an old-time turn-rable which the l.. B. & w.
company have at that point
lockwood, Newcomb & Co. are crowded with
work. This week they set up saw-mills at Ell
lettsvilie, McCordsvllls and Duggers. in Indiana,
and also ship large mill to Cincinnati.
William Terrill, of this city, was given the
contract for furnishing the thing for the floors
of the courthouse at LogansporG- The
work is to be specially fine, and will cost about
ST. 500
The Indianapolis Stove Company has in
creased its force ana is running on full time
The company makes large shipments of stoves
to the Northwest shipping carloads into Iowa
and Oregon.
The WOODBURY. Sarven Wheel Company will
next week start out their travelling statesmen
again. For two months they have been engaged
in filing back orders, which were delayed by the
strike in June
On Sept. LIST the fiscal year with the Oliver.
Chilled Plow Works closed and it has been a
very prosperous one, the Indianapolis branch
doing thirty three per cent. more business than
IN the year preceding
The water in the river is so low that but little
now runs into the canal. and the water works
and several manufactures. which usually run
by water power drawn from the canal, are now
running by steam power.
The hominy mills preparing TO again COM
mence running both day and night, which they
have been unable to do fer some weeks past so
difficult has it been to get sufficient quantity
of corn of the quality they Sc.
The United States Encaustic Tile Company is
so pressed with work that they have been obliged
to decline to FIJI several orders. The company
will at once enlarge their buildings aud increase
their productive capacity so per cent.
The American Paper Pnlley Company is
pressed with orders. Their pulley is used al
most entirely where electric plants estab-
lished all over this country, and they are kept
pretty busy filling orders from this source.
The wooden mills are pressed with orders.
Geisendorf & Co. state that they could sell
double the quantities OF goods they now dispose
of If they could manufacture them. There is no
point in the country where voolen mills thrive
better than in Indianapolis.
Tine canning establishments are pushing bus
mess ell along the line. Two of the houses are
running day and night. Orders for canned
goods and iellies are largely in excess of any
former year, so light has been the fruit crop in
many parts of the country.
Klngan Sc Co. are now killing only l. 500 hogs
per day. on account of the difficulty in getting
hogs. They are now making purchases in kan-
sas City. ST Louis. Chicago and Peoria in add
ton to taking all the hogs on this market which
are not gathered up IS the Eastern buyers.
A. B. Gates g. Co. have completed their
coffee mills, and have of the best
equipped establishments of this character west
Of Nayv Vnrk pds Of dolf
have been spent in making the improvements
Their goods are shipped into every State in the
Union in large quantities.
The Indianapolis cabinet-works are now fill
ing an order for desks to refurnish the govern
ment Offices at Washington, d. G. The con-
tract amounts TO $75. 000 The secretary OF the
company has just returned from London, Eng
land, where he closed contracts for desks to be
placed in some of the leading financial houses OF
that city the contracts amounting to $35, 900.
Among recent shipments made by Dean
Bros steam-pump works are the following:
Two vertical pumping engines, capacity 1.500,-
600 gallons in twenty-four hours to Florence.
Ala: ono horizontal pumping engine, capacity
1000, 900 gallons per day, to Davenport. Ia;
three mine pumps to the Island Coal Company,
and one double plunger pump for Kansas City.
Sinker, Davis g. CO. a few months ago. as an
experiment, commenced paying their employees,
numbering two hundred and fifty. every two
working very satisfactorily to the employees and
to the firm and the men who would probably
spend their entire earnings before week
PRED If they were paid on Saturday, now
enabled to save something.
Chandler & Taylor shipped a few days ago a
carload o. heavy saw mill machinery, including
engine and boiler 10 Missoula. Montana Terri
tory, ana have an order to duplicate the ship
rnent a once. They have also shipped load of
saw mills to Denver. Col. They are havi ng a
lively local trade, having shipped engines and
boilers in the last few days to sFortvlle Bloom
ington, Waldron and Mt Ayr, in Indiana.
contract for erecting 500-barrel rollermll
was awarded to the Nordyke 81 Marmon Co., of
this city. by G. Crow and others composing the
Omaha Roiler-miIl Company, of Omaha Neb
The cost OF this mill will, be $50, 900, and was
for by millbuilders far and near.
Omaha at present has no Touring mills. An
order for another 500 barrel mill has also been
on the bay opposite San Francisco.
The weather for the last four months has
been so favorable for the making of brick that
the market is oyers:ocked. and prices have de-
cliued 81 per 1000. At Jesse Adams's brick
yard four million brick have already been man
this season. and at Thomas Sc
Fetchers yard three and nehalf million. In
all thirty million brick have been manufactured
in and about Indianapolis this season, while but
twenty million have yet been used
E. C. Atkins said yesterday to Journal re-
porter: III we had twenty five frst-class saw
makers and room for them, in addition to our
present force we might catch up with pres
hone to be in shape by early spring erect a
building the ground we purchased a few
month ago. 200 feet long by 40 feet wide and
five stories high. Our business is growing with
a rapidity to justify us in erecting such build
ing"
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